Skeptical Climate Scientists Coming In From the Cold

Real Clear Investigations via Drudge ^ | 31 Dec 2016 | James Varney

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In the world of climate science, the skeptics are coming in from the cold.

Researchers who see global warming as something less than a planet-ending calamity believe the incoming Trump administration may allow their views to be developed and heard. This didn’t happen under the Obama administration, which denied that a debate even existed. Now, some scientists say, a more inclusive approach – and the billions of federal dollars that might support it – could be in the offing.

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The field is cluttered with entrenched figures who must toe the established line, he said, pointing to a recent congressional report that found the Obama administration got a top Department of Energy scientist fired and generally intimidated the staff to conform with its politicized position on climate change.

“Remember this was a tiny field, a backwater, and then suddenly you increased the funding to billions and everyone got into it,” Lindzen said. “Even in 1990 no one at MIT called themselves a ‘climate scientist,’ and then all of a sudden everyone was. They only entered it because of the bucks; they realized it was a gravy train. You have to get it back to the people who only care about the science.”

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I think what they are referring to is the manmade component of CO2. Which would be about 7% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 is .04% of the atmosphere.

Manmade C02 would then be 7% of .04% (.07 x .0004) which equals .000028 or .0028% (hope I got that right).

[UCANSEE2]

Looking back I’m not sure I know what the heck they are talking about. Your speculation they were thinking about perc. of greenhouse gases sounds likely.